Written by author Shimon Briman

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Stalin's terror: Jewish victims and executioners

Today is the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression. There is a lot of talk in Moscow about victims and executioners. The Jews were both, and the executioners themselves often ended up in their own meat grinder. Here I am looking at a document that is 75 years old - from 13...


Shimon Peres: Death of a Dreamer

The departure of a political long-liver, 93-year-old Shimon Peres, is in some ways the end of an era for Israel. The era of the founding fathers of the Jewish State. A native of the Western Belarusian village of Vishnevo, the future ninth president of Israel began his journey as a “Komsomol member of Zionism” on the eve of World War II, rising through the ranks...


The story of David Leibovich, inventor of Israeli artillery from Russia

A Siberian Jew escapes bullets from Soviet Russia to rebuild the Land of Israel, and then creates the first "Jewish artillery" that saves the young country during the War of Independence. Siberian Zionism In 1928, a new teacher was hired at the Mikve Israel agricultural school ...


Potential Vice President of the United States - a true friend of Israel

It has happened: Trump has become the Republican Party's presidential candidate. And I increasingly like his running mate - potential Vice President Mike Pence, who has repeatedly supported Israel. Pence approved of Israel's active actions against Hamas terrorists and harshly criticized Obama for making concessions to nuclear...


Elie Wiesel: the search for God in a concentration camp

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel survived the hell of Hitler's concentration camps as a teenager. He outlined this hell in simple language in his book “Night”, which after 1958 was translated into dozens of languages ​​around the world. Wiesel writes about the stages of genocide and attempts to survive in this hell...


Six-day war and late love of Vinnitsa Jew

The role of a young woman in world history is visible not only in the ancient legends about Helen the Beautiful and the Trojan War, but also in the key events of the modern era. One of them is connected with the famous Six Day War of 1967, the anniversary of which is June 5-10. ...

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